Jazz Guitar Q&A #25 – Functional Harmony – Jam Sessions – Uninspired

In this weeks Q&A I will go over some questions on Functional Harmony as an approach to understanding jazz standards and songs in general. How I use it and in general times what it is. Jam sessions, how do you behave and what to expect and be aware of when going to an open session. Finally there is also a question on dealing with practicing when you are not inspired or motivated.

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Memorizing Chord Progressions

All Jazz players come to a part of their journey where they need to memorize repertoire. Since a chord progression is a fairly abstract construction that can be difficult. In this video I am going to try to go over some ways that understanding the harmony and the form can help you memorize the song. Next I will demonstrate how it works by going over an analysis of There will never be another you.

Using analysis to memorize

A chord progression is not a random set of letters that you have to be able to recite! Think of phone numbers where we use country and area codes to remember long rows of numbers.

The key to this is to understand that a jazz song is often a long progression that is constructed of a lot of smaller common progressions. Understanding this makes it easier to organize and remember the progression.

In this weeks Q&A I will go over some questions on Counterpoint, How much time you should spend working on and learning jazz standards. A question of decisions before and while soloing stretching in to how much and how you keep an overview while soloing.

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Jazz guitar Q&A #23!

In this weeks Q&A I will go over some questions on Outside Vocabulary, Using legato for bebop themes, daily practice for comping, What scales to learn and why(or if?) Phygian works for an altered chord

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How To Practice Jazz Guitar – Getting the thinking right

This is almost like a mission statement.

I get asked all the time about “what should I practice?” “how long should I practice?” “How do you learn scales?” etc. Which makes a lot of sense because it is something we spend a lot of time on, and we want to get it right and not waste our time.

In the video I discuss how you might want to make sure that you plan out the goals you want to achieve and that you keep in mind what part of the process of learning a skill you are at.

It’s a video of me talking quite a lot, because it’s not really a topic where there is a lot to demonstrate, but at the same time I think it is important to start a discussion on this.

Jazz guitar Q&A #21!

In this weeks Q&A I will go over some questions on how to use the same voicing for different chords. Get started practicing with the metronome on 2 and 4. Where to use wholetone scale and also how and why I made a career as a jazz guitarist.

I will also talk a bit about my up coming Patreon page!

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0:12 Intro2:05 Patreon Page coming up5:10 Get started practicing with the metronome on 2 and 4.13:01 how to use the same voicing for different chords.21:48 Where to use wholetone scale31:42 How and why I made a career as a jazz guitarist.

This weeks Q&A – Jazz guitar Q&A #20!

In this weeks Q&A I will discuss Dynamics and tone on jazz guitar and how you can change your sound. Arpeggio fingerings in 3 note per string scales, Strumming in triplets and relative pitch: What is it for and how do you develop it!

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Jazz Guitar Q&A #19

In this episode I talk about Exploring Exotic scales and how to use them in a musical way, Syncopation and how to practice that, How to choose exercises for your daily practice routine, Do you need large hands to play guitar.

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